Clair-a young American woman being shuffled off to Europe by her family due to a surprise pregnancy-is searching for her lost French cousin, and her quest leads her to the London doorstep of a prickly, drunken woman named Eve Gardiner. The Alice Network jumps deftly and briskly between two tumultuous periods of European history: 1947, in the wake of the second world war and 1915, in the heat of the first. With her latest novel, Kate Quinn announces herself as one of the best artists of the genre. The best practitioners of this often subtle art can sew those new threads without ever breaking the pattern, until the new and the old, the real and the fictional, are one and the same. Historical fiction is all about blending the original with the familiar, about those delicate new stitches woven into the tapestry.
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